Carolyn TaratkoWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Kontakt
Dr. Carolyn Taratko
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Büro: Am Neuen Markt 1, Raum 1.01
Tel.: 0331/28991-78
E-Mail: carolyn.taratko [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Vita
since 2023
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) am Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
2020–2023
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) an der Universität Erfurt im Bereich Globalgeschichte
2019–2020
Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2019
Promotion in Geschichte, Vanderbilt University (USA)
2019
Gastwissenschaftlerin, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
2018
Gastwissenschaftlerin (Predoc), Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Projekte
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Research project
Examining the construction of cold as an integral part of development reshapes how we look at the impact of decolonization in Europe, Ghana’s self-assertion on the world stage, and the global Cold War.
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Research project
This project explores how West Germans leveraged their own recent postwar experiences to build relationships with the decolonizing world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Completed research project (publication forthcoming)
Feeding Anxiety, a book-length study that expands upon my dissertation, traces the ideas and politics of food security through Germany’s late nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial and global entanglements...
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Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen:
“Autarky from the Ground Up: Settlement Science and Agricultural Independence in Weimar Germany” American Historical Review Forum, “A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe,” edited by Tara Zahra and Peter Becker (June 2023):841–862. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad231.
“Balancing the Books: Valuing Household Work in Weimar Germany,” Special Issue “Food & Sovereignty” in Gender & History 34 (Oct. 2022): 752–770. Open Access.
with Amalia Ribi Forclaz, “Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labour in the Twentieth Century,” in Living with the Land: Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth-Century Europe- A Handbook, eds. Liesbeth van de Grift, Dietmar Müller, Corinna Unger (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022), 205–225. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110678628-011
“Dominik Richert,” in 1914–1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrelle, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2018-08-18. doi: 10.15463/ie1418.666.